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Emmanuel Todd. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order, 2003.
"Europeans do not understand why the US does not want to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian issue, although it has all the necessary capabilities to do so. They are beginning to ask themselves the question: is Washington essentially satisfied with this eternal source of tension in the Middle East and the growing hostility of the Arab peoples towards the Western world?"
"Everything is happening as if the United States were seeking, for vague reasons, to maintain a certain level of international tension, a situation of limited chronic war."
"Today... the United States can no longer rely solely on its own production. While the world, being on the road to stabilization in education, demographics and democracy, discovers that it can do without the US, the US begins to realize that it can no longer do without the rest of the world."
"The US is forced to wage a political and military struggle to maintain its hegemony, which has become necessary to maintain its living standards."
"It must find a solution, real or illusory, to its painful problem of economic dependence. It must remain, at least symbolically, in the center of the world and for this it must demonstrate its “power,” excuse me, its “omnipotence.” We are thus witnessing the emergence of theatrical militarism, the three main elements of which are as follows:
- not completely solving problems in order to justify the endless military actions of the “single superpower” on the planet; - focus on micropowers - Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, etc. The only way to remain politically at the center of the world is to “attack” the small players, confirming the US's power...
- create new types of weapons so that the United States is “far ahead” in the arms race that should never stop."
"The US is drifting toward a greater belief in human inequality. It believes less and less in the unity of the human race. Without any changes, we can apply these findings to the State of Israel, whose policy towards the Arabs is accompanied by internal stratification as a result of economic inequality and religious beliefs. The growing inability of Israelis to perceive Arabs as human beings at all is obvious to people who follow print or television information."
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